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1
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Get round to

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Find time to do - also around

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Get rid of

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Throw away

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Get in on (an activity)

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to start participating

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Stick to

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To do sg that you promised or decided you would do, or that you believe you should do

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Cut down on

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Decrease the amount of

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3
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Come to

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Be a question of, concern Start to talk about sg. To become conscious

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Get on with SO

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Have a friendly relationship

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get on with (an activity)

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continue doing it

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Put back

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To change the time or date of an event so that it happens later than originally planned To put something in the place where it was before it was moved To change the time of a clock or watch to an earlier time

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Get around

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Move from one place to another

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7
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Put through

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Make sb. do a test Connect someone to the person they want to speak to on the telephone

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7
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Get back at sb.

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Take revenge

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Look forward to

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To feel happy and excited about something that is going to happen

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Get back into (an activity)

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to start getting involve in it again

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Send away for

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Order by post

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See to

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Deal with, do sg. about

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10
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Look around

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Explore

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Carry on with

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Continue

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12
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Get by

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Just manage to live or do sg.

Manage under difficult circumstances

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13
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Turn away

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Refuse entry

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13
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Put down to

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Give as a reason

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Let sb in on

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To tell someone a secret

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Get into (a Subject)

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to start getting interested in it

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Attend to

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Serve a customer in a shop, restaurant etc

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Head for

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Going somewhere

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Toy/Play with

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To consider an idea in a way that is not serious or definite

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Fall for

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To believe that a trick or a joke is true

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Go back

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To return to a person, place, subject, or activity To have existed since or for a particular time When the clocks go back, everyone changes the time on their clocks so that they show a time that is one hour earlier than before

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18
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Come up with

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To think of something such as an idea or a plan

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19
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Take out on

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Blame on SO for STH you did

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20
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Bargain for

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Take into account

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20
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Get together

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Meet up

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22
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Fall back on

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Have sg. to use when you are in difficulty

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23
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Pull through

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Recover from a serious illness

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23
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Take after

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Inherit outlook and/or personality from parents

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24
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Bring round

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Influence someone to your point of view To make someone who is unconscious become conscious

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24
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Come over

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To pay a casual visit If a feeling comes over you, it suddenly affects you in a strong way If sb or sg comes across in a particular way, you have a particular opinion of them when you meet them or see them

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24
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Live up to

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To be as good as what was expected or promised

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25
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Go through with

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Do sg. you aren’t happy about

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25
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Let in on (the secret)

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Communicate a secret

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26
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Stand up to

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To not allow yourself to be treated badly, especially by someone in authority To not be changed or damaged by something

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Brush aside

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To refuse to accept that something is important or true

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28
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Run over

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Injure/kill someone with a car Practise a performance Explain something again

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29
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Get through to sb.

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Make sb. understand sg.

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30
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Get back

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Return to place Receive/have something again Start doing something again To return to the state or condition you were in before

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31
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Hand over

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To give something to someone by holding it in your hand and offering it to them To give power or control to someone else

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32
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Get round

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Manipulate

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33
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Fall in love

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Fall in love with - colloquial

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33
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Pass away

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Die

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34
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Stand up for

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To defend someone or something that is being criticized or attacked

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35
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Fall about

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Show amusement especially laughing colloquial

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37
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Catch up with

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Speed up to be at the same place as a person or thing in front of you To improve in order to reach the same standard or rate as someone or something

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37
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Go back on

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Not keep a promise

39
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Get away

A

Escape

Go for a Holiday

41
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Come in for

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To receive something such as criticism

43
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Get behind (with work)

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Be slower or not making the same progress as other people

44
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Keep up with

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Stay in schedule with (a person the workload homework)

45
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Go in for

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Do regularly (such as sport)

46
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Getting at STH

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Explaining STH

48
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Come across

A

Find, meet by chance If someone or something comes across in a particular way, you have a particular opinion of them when you meet them or see them

49
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Get behind (SO/STH)

A

Support

Try to help it succeed

50
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Take back

A

To admit that something you said to or about someone was wrong To take something that you have bought back to the shops because it is broken or not suitable

51
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Back out of

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Not keep (a promise, agreement, deal)

53
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Break through

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To successfully deal with something that is stopping you making progress If something that was hidden breaks through something, it appears through it

54
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Come about

A

Happen

54
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Get STH across

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Be understood - especially get an idea across

56
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Get around (a difficulty)

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Find a way to avoid it

57
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Can’t get over sg.

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Used for saying that you are very surprised by something

58
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Fall over (oneself)

A

try very hard or want very much to do sg.

59
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Make of

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To understand someone or the meaning of something in a particular way

60
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Press for

A

Try hard to get

61
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Get to the wrong end of the stick

A

Misunderstand

62
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Set back

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To delay the progress of someone or sg

63
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Look up to

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Respect, admire someone

64
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Stand in for

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Take someone’s place

66
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Get along with SO

A

Have a friendly relationship

67
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Make up for

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Compensate for

68
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Leap at an opportunity/chance

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Jump to the chance, take the chance

68
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Fall through

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To not be completed or not happen

70
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Bring back

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To cause ideas, feelings, or memories to be in your mind again Make a dead person live

71
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Drop out of

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Quit an organized activity (school)

72
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Turn over

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To change the position of your body when you are lying or sleeping so that you face the opposite direction To make a particular amount of money in a particular time

74
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Catch up on

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Become up-to-date To do sg that should have been done before

75
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Go on at

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Come against

76
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Bring STH about

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Cause to happen

78
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Get out of

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To avoid doing something that you should do or that you said you would do

79
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Take over

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To take control of something

80
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Looking formats to

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Anticipate with pleasure

82
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Get up to

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To do something, especially something that you should not do Do sg. naughty, fun

83
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Fall behind

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Fail to keep up with sg.

84
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Fit in with

A

Your personality matches into the group To be correct, suitable, or sensible in relation to something else

85
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Get over

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Overcome / to recover from To make people understand something

86
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Go with

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Match, suit

87
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Come around

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To recover, revive / to change opinion or decision / visit someone

88
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Grow out of

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If children grow out of clothes, they grow bigger and the clothes become too small for them If someone grows out of a habit, they stop doing it, because they are older or wiser

89
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Stand for

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If someone stands for a particular principle, they believe that principle is important If a letter, an abbreviation, or a symbol stands for something, that is what it means or represents

90
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Take sg. out on

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To make someone suffer because you are angry, upset, or tired, even though it is not their fault

92
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Face up to

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Acknowledge STH difficult or embarrassing

94
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Come forward

A

Give information

95
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Stand for election

A

Apply like a candidate

97
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Look down on

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To think that you are better or more important than someone else, or to think that something is not good enough for you

98
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Call for

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To demand To say publicly that sg must happen To make something necessary or suitable

99
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Stand by

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To be ready to act / to remain loyal

101
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Bring forward

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To change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier To announce plans or ideas officially so that people can discuss them

102
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Hear from

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Receive a letter or phone call

102
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Feel up to

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Have the energy to do STH

103
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See through

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Realise what sb is really like

105
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Cut back on

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Reduce

106
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Go/Come down with

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Catch some kind of illness

107
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Look back on

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To remember nostalgically

108
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Put up with

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Tolerate

109
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Get though with

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Finish after a long delay

110
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Fish for compliments

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Desire to get appoval

111
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Run out of

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Not have any more of sg.

113
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Go along with

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Agree with sb.

115
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Do away with

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Abolish - colloquial Murder - colloquial

116
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Get at

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Succeed to reach or touch sth To discover the true facts about something

117
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Get ahead

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to progress financially or in your career.

119
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Put by/away/aside

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Save some money

120
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Give away

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To reveal or make known / to make a gift of

121
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Put forward

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To propose for consideration To change the time or date of an event so that it happens earlier than originally planned To change the time of a clock or watch to a later time

122
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Get along

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Have a very good relationship

123
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Stand up to

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Defend oneself against SO or STH

124
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Pay back

A

To give someone the same amount of money that you borrowed from them

125
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Ask after

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Inquire about

126
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Get away with

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Do STH against the rules or illegal and not get caught or punish

127
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Go through

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To perform / to experience

128
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Go on with

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Continue (a plan a conversation )

129
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Get over with

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Come to the end of STH usually unpleasant

130
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Run though

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Review quickly

131
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Get down to (a job)

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Start to do it attentively

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